Help! £40 to feed family for the month

firesidemaid

leiela wrote: »

But having read this thread i figure if a family of 4 can be fed on £20 with alot LESS in the cuboards to start with than i had, then i can manage with my £33, even with the addition of pets.

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that sounds like you are going to add the pets to the ingredients for your meal planning!

better watch out.....seems like there are some on here that would probably report you to the rspca for that comment:rolleyes:.

leiela

firesidemaid wrote: »

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that sounds like you are going to add the pets to the ingredients for your meal planning!

better watch out.....seems like there are some on here that would probably report you to the rspca for that comment:rolleyes:.

HAHA ... yeah .. anyone got a good recipe for baked Cat? or roasted german shepard?

Hardup_Hester

When mine were young & I was shopping with all 4 of them I always ended up putting empty packets through the till as the kids had eaten the contents on the way round.
Hester

oystercatcher

Now that really annoys me when I see people letting their kids eat as they go round the supermarket. What happened to teaching them to wait? Self discipline etc.

Sometimes it's even the adults and they can definitely wait for a few minutes.... I am amazed the shops let them get away with it.

Then I see the packets or half eaten bun dumped on a shelf further round !!

Phatmouse

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I'm not taking the "moral high ground" but as shoplifting is classed as theft, I've reported this post, and will ask the team for their verdict.

Penny. x

Dear god, please don't tell the team on me!

My forgetting remark was a little joke regarding the lady who forgot to pay for her beans, which I am sure she did, as had she bean stealing them, she would have stole something better than 8 tins of beans and then probably kept it to herself. But thanks for knowing nothing about me and calling me a thief anyway.

I went to a coffee shop the other day and was charged £3.65, I gave her a fiver and she give me £3.65 in change I corrected her immediatley so she did not get into trouble, but yes I have left a shop without paying for goods when I haven't noticed.

Most recently 2 childrens tshirts which were reduced to £1 each in asda, which I hung off my trolley, I paid for the rest of my shopping and was only distracted due to my children screaming for the cholcolate asda leave right next to the till. I was more interested in making sure my children didn't fall out the trolley while trying to grab it, it does happen and they do call it shrinkage. I put my kids in their car seats, shopping in the boot and trolley back in the trolley bay, when someone told me I had left the tshirts on the trolley, I never went back in a I couldn't bear getting the kids back out the car and as they are 2 and 13 months I couldn't very well leave them in the car, I may burn in hell for all eternity, but lets be honest it's unlikley, more likely I will just get slagged off by a bunch of people who know sod all about me.

I really don't think my post was bad enough to make anyone go bright red and bear their teeth at me, it may be worth relaxing a little and maybe not judging so much.

Anyone want me to nick them some valium

Phatmouse

I let my kids eat on the way round, I have two babies a house to look after and a job. Sometimes I combine shopping with lunch, the people at the tills never mind ringing up empty packets and usually bin them for me, if they do not mind, why would anyone else, can't say i have ever put back anything half eaten though.

Live and let live I say.

bexxie90

I'm with Phatmouse here,honestly whats wrong with the people on here getting so moralistic.
Let those without sins cast the frst stone and all that.

Jesus what an over-reactive world we live in,Tescos and the like steal enough of our money if you look at it that way. Hundreds they have had out of some people with till-receipt errors etc.
Oh and I walked out with a bag of toilet rolls on the trolley,did I return? No because looking on my receipt I had been charged twice for a £4.98 item and would they have been sympathetic? No,didnt think so.

Well done to Op btw for completing what must have been a difficult month.
bex.xx

HariboJunkie

bexxie90 wrote: »

I'm with Phatmouse here,honestly whats wrong with the people on here getting so moralistic.
Let those without sins cast the frst stone and all that.

Jesus what an over-reactive world we live in,Tescos and the like steal enough of our money if you look at it that way. Hundreds they have had out of some people with till-receipt errors etc.
Oh and I walked out with a bag of toilet rolls on the trolley,did I return? No because looking on my receipt I had been charged twice for a £4.98 item and would they have been sympathetic? No,didnt think so.

Well done to Op btw for completing what must have been a difficult month.
bex.xx

I used to own a shop and really don't see why people think it's ok to steal from businesses. Why should my children suffer because my business suffers, just because people think it's ok to steal from businesses? As for the argument that big business steals from us??? Two wrongs rarely make a right.

I can't speak for other posters but I wasn't over reacting with my previous post. It's the reaction I would have every time I thought someone was flaunting theft.

And Phatmouse... I'm sure you'll agree that your post was misleading. It definitely (mis)led me to believe that you were saying it was ok to leave a shop without paying. I am sorry if I read it wrong.

Patchwork_Quilt

Perhaps I'd better confess to one of our family legends -

I was out on the High Street with our buggy when the children were little and I popped into my favourite charity shop, wheeled around, didn't see anything I liked and so we left to visit the one down the road. Unbeknown to me, a pair of enormous underpants on a hanger had attached itself to a hook on the buggy and I walked all the way down the High Street with this minging pair of grey y-fronts flapping at my side. Of course, when we noticed them, I couldn't bear to put them in my bag in case they contaminated something, so we walked all the way back up the High Street with them flapping on the other side. Then, I had to go in and confess to the people in the shop that we'd 'stolen' them. They could see they weren't my size.

It does happen. Especially to dozy people like me.

anguk

oystercatcher wrote: »

Now that really annoys me when I see people letting their kids eat as they go round the supermarket. What happened to teaching them to wait? Self discipline etc.

Sometimes it's even the adults and they can definitely wait for a few minutes.... I am amazed the shops let them get away with it.

Then I see the packets or half eaten bun dumped on a shelf further round !!

Things aren't always what they seem though. I've never eaten walking round the supermarket but my OH has a few times, if you saw him you would perhaps just think he was greedy or lacks self-discipline but the truth would be that he's diabetic and he can feel a hypo coming on. On occasions like this he'll have a bottle of lucozade or fruit juice and eat a sandwich to stop his bloods dropping further and becoming a full blown hypo.

We do always put the empty packets through the till and pay for what he's eaten.